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WSJ: Rent Control Is the Real New York Scandal

September 19, 2008 By Adam Hengels

In case you didn't catch it last weekend, Eileen Norcross wrote an excellent piece on rent control in New York. She touches on Charlie Rangel's four rent control apartments scandal, some history of rent control in New York, the destructive results of rent control, vast inefficiencies caused by rent … [Read more...]

Filed Under: rent control Tagged With: Charlie Rangel, Ed Glaeser, Eileen Norcross, housing, nyc, rent control, WSJ

Rangel Now Only Hoards Three Rent Controlled Apartments

July 15, 2008 By Adam Hengels

Democratic Congressman Charlie Rangel has announced that he will vacate the rent controlled apartment he has been using as a campaign office. This apartment is just one of four rent controlled apartments he is hoarding in the Lenox Terrace apartment building in Harlem.NY Times - Rangel to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: corruption, housing, rent control Tagged With: Charlie Rangel, Harlem, housing, Lennox Terrace, nyc, rent control, rent stabilization

Congressman Rangel Legally Plunders $30,000/year in Four Rent Controlled Apartments

July 14, 2008 By Adam Hengels

[update! Rangel Now Only Hoards Three Rent Controlled Apartments] In case you missed it, powerful New York Congressman Charlie Rangel has been hoarding four apartments in Harlem's Lenox Terrace. Coincidently (perhaps not so coincidently) Lennox Terrace is the same building where New York's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: corruption, housing, rent control Tagged With: Charlie Rangel, Governor Paterson, Harlem, housing, Lennox Terrace, nyc, rent control, rent stabilization

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